How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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